How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
People cannot stand too much Reality.
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.
Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.
The healthy man does not torture others.
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
For better to come, good must stand aside.
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .
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